Error saving Firefox webpage using pywinauto in Python

Question

I just installed pywinauto-0.4.2 for Python 2.7.8 (on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine). I tried the example given in pywinauto

Source code for the SaveFromFirefox.py program (specified in the above URL):

from pywinauto.application import Application
import sys
import time
import os.path

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print "please specify a web address to download"
    sys.exit()

web_addresss = sys.argv[1]

if len(sys.argv) > 2:
    outputfilename = sys.argv[2]
else:
    outputfilename = web_addresss
    outputfilename = outputfilename.replace('/', '')
    outputfilename = outputfilename.replace('\\', '')
    outputfilename = outputfilename.replace(':', '')


# start IE with a start URL of what was passed in
app = Application().start_(
    r"c:\program files\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe %s"% web_addresss)

# some pages are slow to open - so wait some seconds
time.sleep(4)

# mozilla is one of thos applications that use existing windows
# if they exist (at least on my machine!)
# so if we cannot find any window for that process
#  - find the actual process
#  - connect to it
if app.windows_():
    mozilla =  app.window_(title_re = ".*Mozilla Firefox")

else:
    app = Application().connect_(title_re = ".*Mozilla Firefox")
    mozilla = app.window_(title_re = ".*Mozilla Firefox")

# ie doesn't define it menus as Menu but actually as a toolbar!
print "No Menu in FireFox:", mozilla.MenuItems()

# File -> Save As
mozilla.TypeKeys("%FA")
#ie.Toolbar3.PressButton("File")
app.SaveAs.FileNameEdit.SetEditText(outputfilename)

app.SaveAs.Save.CloseClick()

# if asked to overwrite say yes
if app.SaveAs.Yes.Exists():
    app.SaveAs.Yes.CloseClick()

print "saved:", outputfilename

# File close tab or close
#(Firefox makes it easy for us having the same shortcut for both!
mozilla.TypeKeys("%FC")

When I try to execute the file on the command line, it opens the Firefox browser and then opens the Save As dialog box, but does not click the Save button.

Rather, this leads to the following error message:

C:\Users\arun_m\Desktop>python2 SaveFromFirefox.py www.google.com
No Menu in FireFox: []
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "SaveFromFirefox.py", line 51, in <module>
    app.SaveAs.FileNameEdit.SetEditText(outputfilename)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\application.py", line 229, in __getattr__
    ctrls = _resolve_control(self.criteria)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\application.py", line 795, in _resolve_control
    raise e.original_exception
pywinauto.findbestmatch.MatchError: Could not find 'FileNameEdit' in '['', u'ShellView', u'Address: D:\\My_Dox_backup\\Work\\Automation Factory\\Selenium\\Sikuli', u'DUIViewWndClas
sName', 'Toolbar4', u'ShellViewSHELLDLL_DefView', u'Namespace Tree Control', u'Breadcrumb Parent', u'Address Band Root', u'Tree ViewTreeView', u'UniversalSearchBand', u'SearchEditB
oxWrapperClass', 'ComboBox2', 'Progress', 'ComboBox0', 'ComboBox1', 'Toolbar2', u'CtrlNotifySink', u'ScrollBar', '20', '21', '22', '23', u'FloatNotifySink0', 'ComboBox', u'FloatNot
ifySink2', u'TravelBand', u'WorkerW', '1', '0', '3', '2', '5', '4', '7', '6', u'NamespaceTreeControl', '8', '12', 'TreeView', 'Toolbar1', u'CancelButton', 'Toolbar', '11', u'Search
 Box', 'ReBar', 'Edit', 'Button', u'CtrlNotifySink0', u'CtrlNotifySink1', u'CtrlNotifySink2', 'Toolbar3', '9', 'Button1', 'Button0', u'FloatNotifySink', u'DirectUIHWND3', u'&SaveBu
tton', u'DirectUIHWND', '10', '13', u'CancelScrollBar', '15', '14', '17', 'Button2', '19', '18', u'Tree View', '16', u'SHELLDLL_DefView', u'Namespace Tree ControlNamespaceTreeContr
ol', u'&Save', u'Address: D:\\My_Dox_backup\\Work\\Automation Factory\\Selenium\\SikuliToolbar', 'Toolbar0', u'FloatNotifySink1', u'DirectUIHWND1', u'DirectUIHWND0', u'Cancel', u'D
irectUIHWND2']'

What is going wrong?

Answer 1

app.SaveAs.FileNameEdit.SetEditText(outputfilename)

app.SaveAs.Edit.SetEditText(outputfilename)

Firefox 34.0.5.

app = application.Application().start_(
r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe %s"% web_addresss)

Win7 x64 + Python 2.6.6 (32- ).

, , Open/Save Win7 WinXP. , WinXP .